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He waits quietly for her reply. The girl hesitates as she looks at him. To her, in her absorbing love for the man before her, the question is an absurd mockery. To reduce to a certain number of pounds this "enough," when for her anything or nothing would be enough!
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice Moons wane, and races wither to the tomb, And 'mid the universal ruin, bloom The rosy days of Gods With man, the choice, Timid and anxious, hesitates between The sense's pleasure and the soul's content; While on celestial brows, aloft and sheen, The beams of both are blent.
I come up to her, and offer my services if I can be of any use to her. She answers timidly that she only wants to make some enquiries. "We are not here in the right place for conversation," I say to her; "but if you would be kind enough to come with me to a cafe, you would be able to speak and to explain your wishes." She hesitates, I insist, and she gives way.
"When shall I see you again," he persists. "You promised me to go home," she frowns, "and get well. Perhaps we shall meet again soon. Good night." He hesitates, his hat in hand. She smiles broadly and kisses him once more upon the forehead. She watches him far down the aisle, then sits again at the table. The shadow falls once more against the wall.
"Tell you-all a gamblin' tale," he repeated, and then mused as if lost in retrospection. "If I hesitates it's because of a multitoode of incidents from which to draw. I've beheld some mighty cur'ous doin's at the gamblin' tables. Once I knows a party who sinks his hopeless head on the layout an' dies as he loses his last chip. This don't happen in Wolfville none.
Surely it would be very rash to risk all that at once and yet if she were to win and she has been so lucky this evening her heart leaps up again she hesitates a moment, then pushes the whole on to the black, reserving only one ten-franc piece, and sits pale, breathless, incapable of moving, during what seemed to her the longest minute in her life.
Morgan Clark, the old bear hunter of Siskiyou, never hesitates about going into a den in the winter to drive out a bear, provided the cavern is wide enough to let the bear pass him. He takes a torch in his hand and stalks boldly in, because his experience has made the proceeding seem perfectly safe.
Ralph walked home with Osborne, and their conversation was upon Benjamin's poetry. "Who would have imagined," said Osborne, "that Franklin was capable of such a performance, such painting, such force, such fire! In common conversation he seems to have no choice of words; he hesitates and blunders; and yet, how he writes!" "Possibly he may not have written it," suggested Ralph.
At the thought of this the mind trembles and hesitates, and the heart contracts with a pang." Deep silence fell while he thus remained disturbed, shaken in his faith in the good powers of life, and at a loss as to who was right he or those two men so languidly stretched out before him.
"I am afraid of forgetting that once I was a gentleman," says he curtly. "You are afraid of what is in that arbour," returns she mercilessly. Rylton hesitates. To draw back is to betray disbelief in his wife; to go on is to join in a conspiracy against her. He had started on that conspiracy in a moment of intense passion, but now his very soul revolts from it.
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